Windows Live Mobile Beta and SlingPlayer in action

YouTube, which I tend to pronouce as "Yow Teeyowwb" 'cus I'm from Dudley, have this video from mess.be showing Windows Live Mobile Beta. You can see how this will look on a Smartphone plus all the new features included since MSN Messenger. Whilst I wa...

Free Broadband for all Sky Customers

Whilst not really Windows Mobile news this needs covering as it signals a massive change in the way you connect to the internet. UK TV giants Sky are today launching free broadband for all 8 million Sky TV customers. All customers, regardless of packa...

Easy install CABs

CAB files - they're a bit confusing for most people. If you're told "Here's a CAB file, go install it", most users will be a little lost. Sure, you could follow our instructions however you can now use CabviaActiveSync. This free edition, courtesy of ...

Broken Sword Coming to Windows Mobile – Get your discount!

The classic "Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars" has always been a favourite since it first appeared on the PC. This is a splendid adventure game which will keep you glued to the screen until you finish it. It's choc full of fluid animation, ful...

MoDaCo Event – The Report

I've just stepped back into the house after a little trip to London for the MoDaCo event. The day went very well with lots of excellent sessions from Microsoft and Orange plus games from Astraware and give-aways galore! I'd have to say this was probab...

HTC TyTN Video Review

Wohoo! We're back on Google today so I'm celebrating with a few cans of lager. Sure, my boss seems to have an issue with it, but it makes the day go quicker :) Anyhow, this is the HTC Hermes, now known as the HTC TyTN. It's featured in …

Mobile Security for Windows Mobile

Some of you guys may have spotted the F-Secure Mobile Security software before. It's an easy-to-use anti-virus solution for Windows Mobile handsets, however until now it wouldn't run on Orange handsets due to a certificatation block. Today F-Secure an...

T-Mobile Officially Announce Instant Email

The T-Mobile updates we mentioned at the start of this month have now been officially announced by the guys at T-Mobile. You can use these updates to get instant-email to all of the T-Mobile MDA devices and benefit from the "remote wipe" facility plus...

Get a retro phone!

I can't really remember if I've featured this before but it's well worth a look if you're after a proper 1980's style mobile phone. Retrobrick.com is a fantastic website if you're a fan of those big hefty mobiles from the A-Team and Knightrider days w...

o2 XDA Atom Exec hits the web

See the mighty atom! Well, that's what this new o2 website is called - dedicated to the new o2 XDA Atom with it's Intel XScale PXA 27x 520Mhz CPU, Wifi, 240x320 screen, 2 megapixel cam (with flash), 192Mb ROM / 64Mb RAM and Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE. It'...

We’ve won an award!

The guys at SwiftScripts.co.uk have blessed us with the "website of the week" award. Their site, which houses lots of useful PHP, CGI and Perl scripts, gave us a stonking 8/10 for the service we provide. It's not all good news though, apparently we on...

Firefox 2.0 on the way

Microsoft T'Interweb Explorer is now on version 7 with Beta 3 being available to download here. It lifted a lot of good stuff from Firefox plus it added a phishing filter to stop you giving away your ebay or bank details. Not to be outdone there'll be...

Sky by Mobile – Is it possible on Windows Mobile?

Some of you may be aware of a new service launched by Sky TV recently. If you're lucky enough to have one of their whizzy PVR's then you'll already be used to the live pause and recording to hard disk. However, recently they announced their Sky by Mob...

MoDaCo Summer Event is coming!

The MoDaCo summer event kicks off this Saturday. If you're planning to attend then there's the usual food, raffle, pub quiz and beer plus goodie bag. Held at the Orange offices at The Point in London Paddington (shown right) between 12 noon and around...

VPA Compact III and Qtek 8500 Announced by Vodafone Germany

It looks like Vodafone Germany are to take on both the HTC Hermes as the Vodafone VPA Compact III (press release here) and the HTC STRTrk (press release here) as the Qtek 8500. Both devices should be an excellent addition to the network and will prove...

New Microsoft ActiveSync version available

Microsoft have released a new ActiveSync - version 4.2. For the unaware ActiveSync enables the transfer and syncronisation of your Outlook details plus documents, music, videos, pictures and software. The new update resolves some issues that gave an e...

Willcom shows the WS007SH

Japanese company Willcom have unveiled another Windows Mobile handset manufactured by Sharp. The WS007SH, which can be seen in 3D here, comes in black and iPoddy white and runs Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC. According to this machine translated pag...

Samsung SGH-i320 Launches

Samsung have announced the launch of their SGH-i320 QWERTY handset which will beat the Motorola Q into Europe. According to Samsung the SGH-i320 will be available in Europe this month with further launches across the rest of Europe and Asia later. We...

HTC Peddle their wares

Nick Butcher emailed me over the weekend regarding the new HTC brand and the pretty hefty advertising they're doing here in sunny Britain. This advert (click here for big) was placed in blokes gadgety mag Stuff - y'know the one, it's usually got some ...

HTC MTeoR Video Review

Apart from having a keyboard like an old Nokia 5.1 and only a 1.3 Megapixel camera (we loved the 2 Megapixel cam in the M600 and want to see more), the MTeoR from HTC looks pretty cool and is featured in this video review.The MTeoR has a 300Mhz …